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FROM MOSCHUS.

When the wind' softly sways the aztura sez, My languid spirit kindles at the sight, And then the laul is no more s dlight, Only the e mighty main seeme swoot to me.

But when the watera in their wrath grow hear, And the long rollers rage with ourling. foam, I turn again towards may wooded home, And love to look upon the sea no more.

Ah sweet the land, and sweet the forest dark,

wind's strife; ·

And hard, indeed, must be the fisher's life, Who toils upon the deep-his home, a bark; His prey, the roaming fish. Bat 'tis my los

Beneath the pince's full-leaf at ease to dream, And thenge I love to hear the pussing stream, Whose prattle charms, and can disquiet not.

which the bird has flown,

EUROPEAN GOSSIP. (Pioneer)

THE CHINA MAIL.

SOCOTRA..

[No. 3976,--Marcm 25, 1876

or his thoughts for the occasion. The Prince to think of it. She sings away so pleasantly showed the greatest interest and asked many-then she stops--and, when you least questions, and he left his Parses informant expect it, she boils over!

Ar a concert lately ono of the gentlomen as much impressed with his affability and condescension as he could himself have been performers had just finished singing the with the strangeness of what he saw and · Anchor's Weighed," when a tipsy-looking weaver convulsed the audience with laugh- heard about the Parsecs.

ter by shouting to the retiring singer, "Say, mun, ye hiv'na tolt us the wacht o't yet."

Astonished;" and then his astonishment

A man with a sad, depressed look and a black alpason coat, and carrying on ambrella that looked as if it was subjected to fits, stepped into a lawyer's office one day last week, and inquired; Do you attend to all kind of law business "He was told by the "Mako afidavits and admi- lawyer he did. nister authe "Certainly" "Well," said he, opening his wallet and taking ont a se bill and laying it down on the table, 1 want you to administer ouths to that amount about this wouther wo are having, and attend to it just as quick as you can, And pick- ing up his umbrella, he left the office before the lawyer could explain that such business was a little out of his jurisdiction. New Fork Express.

supply to demand, must pay the penalty the plains was 70, and several stress nooner or later in the pangs of dyspepsia; not far off the sea showed a mean tempe PARIS, 22nd January, in addition to which, although they might turo, for the whole year, of 744: Du The Corporation of Paris selected Viator not have increased in weight, a measure the southwest monsoon, the thermomet Hugo as its delegato voter. The political ment of the limbs and body reveals the stands higher, though the windward Aid character of Victor Hugo, which Londs to melanchoy fact, that whereas their legs and of the island is cool enough. At times the the most rank socialiam, is detestable arms have shrunk to more sticks, their weather is fearfully tempestuous; but enough. It seems founded on over-weaning bodies have increased enormously; so that, nevertheless, in Socotra a man. can enjoy At the foot of the hill on which the Towers vanity. But it is pleasant to think that in fat, they cannot but feel that they are for the trouble of a short journey, almost of Silence are erected- there are two institu- in the private life of the illustrious writer, painful examples of matter in the wrong uy climate he could desira

tions which do infinito honor to the Parsees, simple amiability and kindness of hoart are place," The frightful extent to which Should any enterprising speculator in and which deserve to be inspected by overy A RECENT bookof historisal reminiscences · the ornaments of the domestic hearth, teetotallors ill-use their stomachs may be search of pastures new think of settling at visitor of Bombay. These are the Dhara-

of the House of Conitoons narrates the Sume one has been lately interviewing the judged from the following passage: Socotra, he must study, besides indigo and modhs or Hospices for the Poor Zoroastrians laughable failure of one member who rose He said, Whose pines make song, whate'er the wild great apologist of the communal insurrec Effervescing or aerated waters are now cotton, the cultivation of the aloe, for of Persia and those of Bombay. I saw fully primed for a first attempt.

tion, and, though a strong political enemy largely consumed, and I think injudicious which the island was one famous, and seventy-eight Persian Parsee women, seventy- Mr Speaker, I am astonished-sir, I am of the poet, he gives us amiable details of ly, especially after food, their action under ocotrine aloen, when pure, are still the three children and fifty-eight adult males in his inner life. Victor Hugo occupies a net those circumstances being to jutroduce facet in the world; they were grown at the Porsian Hospice, and delighted they overcame him, and he sat down, never to rise of apartments at 21, Rue de Clichy, on the carbonio acid gas into the stomach and to one time all over the island; but a year or were to be talked to in their own language, in Parliament again. second floor, immediately above the rooms distend it, at a time when already sufficient so before Lieutenant Wellstead visited it, and to be able to tell their grievances to one occupied by his daughter-in-law, Madame ly dietonded by food and the gan developed the exportation only amounted to a couple who could understand and sympathize with Charles Hugo, on the first floor. The in digestion; in this way the process is of tons. Besides the aloe, there is the them. In the Hospice for the Poor Parsees of great writer's Parisian residence is chiefly interfered with, and pain and indigestion Pterocarpus draco, from which dragon's Bombay I saw thirty men and eight women remarkable for the drawing-room which is result. I feel convinced that a free usa of blood is produced, and other plants of less and I thoroughly convinced myself that they almost unknown; are treated with the most tender charity, HERE is the great, difference between decorated with great taste, although neither soda, potass, or seltzer-water is weakening value. Agriculture sentimentalism and genuine Christian feel pictures nor piano are permitted place. The to the stomach, however refreshing an the only gradu cultivated being a sort of which ministers to all their wants. Their ing, Paul was no sentimentalist, for he old maurises very early, even in winter, being occasional draught of them may be millet, which, whenever the date-groves food is good, they have clean rooms and changed over his emotion into action. It never in bed after seven. Immediately he and I am quite certain that if they are fail them, the natives use as food, Ita beautiful garden, and they live in one of is sometimes said in complimentary terms plunges into an immense tub of cold water, thought desirable, their use ought to be would seem, on the whole, that the natural the most salubrious spots of the whole island, of a preacher; His sernion was remark nor does he fall in this even when on certain to dilute the wine or spirit taken in advantages of Socotra are both considerable Khurshidgi Ardasir and the sons of Nardouji ably eloquent it drew tears from my eyes." mornings he has to break into the bath the intervals between meals, and that they and neglected; indeed, Lieutenant Well-Borabji Parak founded these most beneficent A Germont the effect of which should end through a thin barrier of ice. When dressed, always impede the progress of digestion stead says that in a few seasons the island institutions, and their names deserve coliture in tears, would certainly be a failure. It is he puts his blood in circulation by a rapid when various kinds of food and often dif- might be rendered as celebrated for the per ima dirum. not omotion alone that is of value in the walk up and down through all the rooms, ferent sorts of wine are present in the extent and variety of its productions, as it Passing on you may ascend the hill of the sight of God, or of an intelligent man, but He then seats himself at his study table, stomach." Tho mental ill-condition of now is for their small number and compara Towers of Silence by a long succession of

terraces and flights of steps from the south, It is emotion translated into life.Dr. E. and does his brain work till nearly half past many teetotallars and Good Templars ad- tive worthlessness." The only animals scen O. Haven.

lavon, the hour of déjeuner. At that meal mite of a rational explanation; and here it by our explorer were camels, sheep, asses, or you may drive in by a carriage roud at the GRIEVE not that man know you not; you the rest of the family appear from belowstairs, is "Number of highly conscientious oxen, goats, and civet-cats; the camels northern entrance, and read, us you pass the A FRENON paper, the Revue Industrielle, grieve that you know not mentonfucius.and the great author takes his accustomed persons," writes the doctor, injure their remarkable. for their strength and spoed, gate, the inscription, which tells you that believes that explosives will furnish the To be a man's own fool bad enough; place at table, with his little grandson, health, and render their own lives and the and especially good in a hilly country. the costly road was made at the expense of mechanical power required by future but the vain, tan is, everybody's.-William George, on his right, and his pretty little lives of those around them miserable, The oxen find plenty of pasturage and the son of the first baronet, Sir Jamshidje, in generations, and that the decrease in the Peru.

granddaughter, Jane, on his left. Opposite through their querulousness and irritabili make excellent beef. Of human inhabit-honor of his father's memory. After driving store of coal is therefore not a subject for OLIVER Wendell Holmos falls into its their mother. Victor Hugo's affection ty, in following out a,mistaken idea of du-ants there are two kinds,the Mogul a quarter of a mile you proceed on foot up a grest anxiety. A little more than a pound nautical phraseology to the following effect; for these children knows no bounds. After ty in abstaining from all alcoholic bever population, living along the northern coast, long, rocky agent till you come to a gate of dynamite, when exploded, will lift from the island with the warning, None but Parsses may the ground and project a weight of 16,000 "I have known more then one genius, high dinner be resumes work, and continues to ages, whereas a moderate use of these and toward the east end decked, full-freighted, wide-sailed, gay read or write till 4 o'clock, when he usually would supply food and support for the those who are descended from Arabe, enter" But the Prince had unsealed the kilogrammes. A kilogramme of nitro- a close chamber pennonod, that, but for the bare, toiling goes out: be always goes alone, and gone nervous and general systems, in a form African slaves, Portuguese, and others; entranos, and, in company with the courteous glycerine exploded in arms, and brave, warm, besting heart of rally, if the weather be dry, on foot, readily absorbed or taken up, in contradic whilst the Bedouins, so dailed by the Seiretary of the Parsee Governing Commit-develops a theoretical pressure of 243,000 mountaineers Lieutenant tee, I went in, and found a little on my right atmospheres, and develops heat in propor the faithful little wife that nestled close in Nothing more tickles his fancy than some tinction to food presented to them in a Arabs, are his shadow and clung to him, so that no times to ball a passing omnibus and mount form which they are unable to digest. I do Wellstond says nothing about the fourth stone chapel or house of prayer, where the tion. In a litre of nitro-glycerine there is wind or wave could part thum, would soon apon the roof. Little can the occasional not assert that querulousness and irritabili ind of people, of which Sir Thomas Kos Pursees who attend the funerals perform their said to be stored 5,600 horse power, work- have gone down the stream and been heard messenger boy or tailor's aid who ban assum-ty are the inevitable results of abstaining heard, and it is likely enough that they devotions. From this spot there is a most ing continuously for ten hours. The of no more.":

ed the same cheap position, dream that the from stimulants, but in some cases this to have quite disappeared. His description of enchanting and unequalled view over Bombay utilization of these agents and of solar heat PERFECT Valor is to do unwitnessed what high-headed, gray-bearded stern-visaged old tal abstention produces that condition from the Bedouin uplandera is interesting, and which every European visitor should see fara problems which will some day be worked we should be capable of performing beforeman at his side is the most illustrious ima insufficiency, justas in certain other cases the they seem to be far better follows than the he can. While I sat here a model of the out, the result being a change in methods the whole world.

ginative writer of his age. But, greatly more same result is obtained by excess." Con- fringe of miscellaneous population on the Tower of Silence was brought and explained of manufacture whereby the great volumes FRAME thy mind to mirth und merri as literary celebrity is esteemed in Frande trasting over eating with over-drinking, he const. The men are tall, strong, well-made, to me; the same identical model which had of fuel now consumed for mechanidal ment, which bar a thousand harms and then in England, the heroes of immor does not hesitate to give his candid opinion and muscular; and the womon, especially interested the Prince; and the explanation purposes will not be required. Lengthen life-Shakspeare.

tality are often little known to the vulgar that "of the two vices over-eating is the younger ones, remarkably well favour was given by the samefox positor. As listened,

-THE CLOWN AND THE FOET. When Lord Success is full of promise til men got many, oren by repute. Victor Hugo some decidedly the more dangerous to life in itsed. The survey party got on oxcellently two corpses ons of which was that of a mohed Byron frequented the green-room of Drury It, and then it is as a last year's nost, from times tells how one evening in passing he results. As many teetotallers are notorious with both sexes, but best, perhaps, with or priest, were brought up the rocky ascent, Lane, he occasionally met Paulo, the slowa, One officer, a Mr each followed by about one hundred Purse whom he guessed, from his name, to be an thought he would go in for half an hour to gluttons and are compelled by natural the Bedouin ladies. A GREAT nature reveals itself less by its the cirous of the Champs Elysess. His oraving to eat incrdinate quantities of solid Cruttendon, had to sacridoe to their female in white gazments. The biers were carried. Italias. Fanlo was English, not only to the Decapes then by its recoveries, us sickness, name is on the free list of all theatres of food in lieu of the beer or wine their more lave of inery all the gilt buttons off his by four men, and two others followed, who backbone, but to the very roots of his hair, shows the native vigor of the constitution, the metropolis as a drainatio writer. The rational and temperate neighbours drink, jacket, on set of gallantry which seems to alone are allowed to enter the tower. The Paulo being merely his nom de theatre. REMEMBRANCE is the only paradise out obecktaker, however, looked on. Victor we would advise Dr Drewery and his have established the reputation of the whole Fursecs who walk in the procession had their His lordship, thinking to please the interest of which we cannot be driven away. In Hugo with a suspicious oye even aftor be professional friends to organisaan Anti- party. On another occasion, a couple of garments linked two-and-two, and this had it foreigner by the dulcet sounds of the deed, our first parents were not to bogare his name, and turning over the pagon Overfeeding Society, for the purpose of girls, bringing a present of milk and a young a mystic meaning. The towers are circuler language of his native land, addressed him deprived of it-kichier.

of a register, said with severity: My rescuing and reforming these knife-and-fork lamb, stayed for achat, in the course of which and are so well built that the oldest has stood in the purest accents of Tuscany. Panio was We are all of us different creatures with good Sir, we don't know any M. Ruget maniacs. We have shown by the above they were so much struck with some of for 300 years without requiring to be repair amazed, and, wishing to reply politely to his different people; our very physique changes here." Another time he and old Alexandre quotations that the author holds common-Lieutenant Wellstead's clothes that were od. They are formed of huge stone slabs,obie interrogator, answered, Yos, sir-I according to our surroundings. We ex- Damas went with a young friend they sense views on the subject on which he has drying in the sun, that ho was moved into well cemented together, and the largest cost. pand mentally, physically, in ouo atmos-wished to honor to put their names in the written; and as he has stated many im- bestowing a pair of white trousers upon each. $36,000. If it may be assumed that the foun, my lord--very kelyjust so 1" His Lordskin perceiving his mistake, wished him phere, and we close, and shrink, and fade, marriage register as witnesses for the porinat facts in very plain language, we can Thone Bedouins are a pleasant-mannered other towers cost on an Everage $30,000 Good night, and walked away Old in another, Nervous, sensitive people bridegroom. It was in a suburban parish, recommend his book as a sound and safe people; and, unlike the Spootran Arabs, ex-euch, we should have a tenth of a million in," said Taulo to his pantaloon, pointing tremely hospitable to strangers. If over the invested in these buildings alone. Add that to the retreating figure, with the well-known show this distinctly; but even the most and the mayor began in due course by guide to the dyspeptio,

English Government takesover the island, we Sir Jamshidjo gave 100,000 square yards of phlegmatic do not escape the effects of asking their names, Victor Hugo, thinking repulsion or attraction.Within an doe. to astonish the municipal worship, stepped

need fear no opposition from them at least land and defrayed the expenses of a road black cloak gracefully disposed to conceal the unless, indeed, they have degenerated and some iden may be formed of the cost of unfortunate foot, sen him "Yes," COLLISION OF SUNS AND STARS.-When up firat and mentioned the two words he We duly take all these things into the ae- thought known through the world. "Bagol

within the last thirty years. At the time the whole cemetery. In the circular external "Lord Byron-post." "I know." Panto epant, the ones of our solar system will ap- Rugol Victor!" said the functionary; "a

r, and whispered, "Mad-20 pear as only one of a thousand cases of evo- your calling Poet." The mayor became where Socotra is, but know nothing about

the ground, and to this the carriers of the

Tas Berlin opera-house is not so large fution and dissolution with which the actually contemptuous an houring this and it. The island was, however, well known

dead accend by a flight of steps, and there as that in Munich, but it is an exceedingly heavens furnisit us. Other stars, like our muttered: Buob a witness for a wedding to geographers in very early times. Aucor.

take in the corpse. The outside of the wall cheerful and agrooable one. The Emperor's cum, have undoubtedly sturted, as vaporous which looked so respectable. Then step. ding to some old writers, Alexander the

is from 25 to 40 feet high, according to the box, which is opposite the stage, couples muasses, and have thrown off planets in ton-ped forward the woolly-headed Alexandre Great founded a colony there! Ptolemy

inequalities of the ground on which the considerable part of the house, and the tracting. The inference may seem a bold Demas. The Mousquetaires and Monte mentions it as Dioscoridis Insula, and Ar-

tower is built. Inside is a circular platform, house is usually well filled with an audience one, but it after all involvos no other aa-Christo were then in great vogue. Atrian tells us something of its inhabitantes,

depressed gradually toward the centre, where exceedingly plan is nut britans option than that of the continuity of un- least," said their famous author, the After their time, people seem to have for-

is u wall of about 10 feet in dimeters The The noticeable thing in the audience' was tural phenomena. It is not likely, therefore, fellow will know who I am. The mayor gotten the existence of Socotra for a while,

surface of the platform consists of fluted the prominente of military uniforms. You that the solar system will forever be left to eyed bim zalker aternly, and when he gave until Marco Polo, the Venetian, wont

grooves laid out in three series, with a cur- would think the town was in a state of itself. Stars which strongly gravitate to his name, said, "Do you spell it Damesse there in the 13th century. Vasco de Gama

cular path surrounding each series, to which suige. Going tard each other, while moving through a my man?" and then went on, "Your calling?" nover saw it, and it was Fernandez Perara

communication is obtained by a straight path allowed, and swords clatter and brass' and perennially resisting medium, must in time Romancer," replied Dumas; whereupon in 1504, who first made the the Island ge-

loading from the aperture in the outer wall tingel dazzle you in all asserablies. For be drawn together. The collision of our ex- his worship fambled for his spectacles, and nerally known to European navigators.

the well in the centre of the tower. This the rest thero is not much areas. The tinct sur with one of the l'iviades, after this put them on to see if a second person was Then, Alphonso de Albuquerque, the great

straight path intersects the circular paths, and Gormans do not dress for the opera. They manner, would very likely suffice to geners poking fun at him. Just then a wins Viceroy of Goa, forestalled our possible po

is about two and a half feet broad, and then go there out of love for the music at an ate even a grander nebula than the one with who had been too late for a previous marrilioy of to-morrow, and took possession of

three-feet. The corpses are deposited in the early hour, and in costume which is most which we started. Possibly, the entire gaage attestation, came in out of breath. the place. The forts which are still to be

grooves, those of men cocupying the first comfortable. A few, ladies in the dress lactic system ruay, in an inconceivably re-Your name?" said the mayor-Casse found near the chief town, show how much

serise, those of women in the second series, circle appear in full toilet, but no one need mote future, remodel itsolf in this way; and majon." "Your calling?" "Grocer." "Ah! importance the Portuguese attached to this THE TOWERS OF SILENCE.

and those of children the third. All the bodies be surprised to see every lady pull her possibly the nebula from which our own at last a respectable person," muttered the station of theirs between Gox and the Cape In the south-western corner of Bombay ure absolutely nude, to fulfil the saying, knitting out of her pocket. There is u group of planets has been formed may have Mayor, taking off his spectacles; be good of Good Hope, but they were not to hold Island the low plain awolls up rather sud-Naked came I inte the world, and naked homely simplicity in the audience which is ored its origin, to the disintegration of sys- enough to sit down, Blessient; a chair, it for long. As they did elsewhere, they denly into a hill 200 feet high, from the top shall I go forth;" and in half an hour from thoroughly German. It is apparently 20 toms which had accomplished their career in porter, for Monsieur Castejon, if you intermarried with the inhabitants, and be of which the whole eity, and almost the the time they are pat in the grooves every more sin to go to the opera in Berlin than the depths of the bygone eternity.Atlantic.please" Such is fame. But let me proceed

THE Berviana havo some exrious legends, with the Bocount given of the daily life of came by degrees fatally demoralized, whole island, aru visible to the north and particle of flesh is stripped from the bones it is to go to a Thursday evening meeting in Their power gradually waned, and the east, and to the west and south to the wide by the numerous vultures that inhabit the America. The Germans are a frugal people. Victor Hugo. Suppose him on the top of

It is a spot which without a doubt spot. The skeleton is left to bleach in sun You see no signs of dissipation or of the One of them appears to be a variation of found, with various local colouring, among making any journey in especial. Whether seem, a petty chiefdom of the Arabian presents the finest view of what has been and wind till it becomes quite dry. Two rapid life of sy city, The German society the Biblical story of Abraham, which is an omnibus. It is not for the purpose of place became subject to the Sultan of Kis sea

it goes to the Bastille or to the Bridge of mainland. In the beginning of the next called one of the choicest scenes of the world, carriers of the dead then enter with gloves may be as lolute as any in the world, the traditions of most of the primitive races. The remion aliuded to runs um Nicht

tutury; and our ships often and well, be stopped at the island for shelter or refresh for the gayest villas of the richest inhabitants; which they carry the bones to the central finds it very difficult to appear so.-Charles was falling: the moon was shining over the same to him. It is the elevation of the ment; and Sir Thomas Roe, among others, but it is a fact that, till the Prince came to well, whore they are cast and crumble into Dudley Warner in Hartford Courant. fields of snow; the stranger entered the nation and the freedom from intrusion has a good deal to say about Socotra, as he India, no European, except it may have been dust. There are perforations in the wall, of

SOME months since an Englishman named by stealth, had but foot upon it. None, cer- the well through which any moisture caused Atkinson bought a country place, nato dwelling of the poor man, Lazarus, Wel which renders the seat a throne of medita tion. In one of those three half-ponny rides come,' said Lazarus then, turning to hire often finds his most famous poetical in-ance of Socotra was recognized for the place, and, if any came, which may well be into two drains at the bottom of the building, thereafter carpenters and masons were In 1800, however, the political import tuinly, were privileged to examine the strange by rain or otherwise passes and descends Pithiviers, in France. For many weeks wife, Luíbitzka, ke bade her light the faggot and prepare the supper.' The wife spirations. Victor Hugo dines late. Bo Bucoud-time. When the French army was doubted, at most they could but cast a fur-where it passes through charcoal and so berhasily employed in repairing and altering replied, Vase is the forest, and on the has a good cook, and the fare at his table is in Egypt, Commodors Blanket received tive glance around them and steal away comes disinfected and inodorous before it the chateau, and after their work had been has a few guests to dine with bim. But no the robes fell through, and the Sooptrans this then most desolate and savage spot, a well by which the carriers of the dead de for a large dinner party to all the most nover to be despised. He almost always orders to take possession of the island, but again. Two centuries have passed since, in reaches the sea. There is a ladder in the completed Mr Atkinson issued invitations But where is the supper? Have no matter who is prosent, the adored grand kept their independence. Then, about gray tower was raised, no sign of life or scend when it is necessary to clear the plat prominent families in the neighborhood. fasted for two days and two nights? Then children invariably retain the same places two and thirty years afterwards, its posi- man's habitation, but an abode of death, and form from obstruation. The dust in the woll The guests arrived at 6 o'clock, and on tak shams and confusion fell on the heart of of honor on his right and on his left. tion, right in the way of traffic from India so well called the Tower of Silence. As time accumulates so slowly that in the forty years ing their seats at the dinner table noticed the poor man, Lazarus. Art than a Sor. Every evening, after dinner, he has a sort by the Red Sea, and close to the route of went on, four other towers were raised around daring which the largest tower has been used with surprise that there was not even ons Vian,' said the stranger, and hast thou

of reception--some friends, & few foreigners, Indiaman sailing round the Cape, attracted the first, the Parsees, to whom those towers it has risen only five fest. There was no servant to be seen. The soup was consum- nothing to offer to thy guest? The poor many who go once from mere curiosity. No the notice of the East India Company, belonged, grow in wealth and influence, the smell from the towers when I was there, and ed in silent astonishment. When all had mustter how interesting the conversation Steam navigation to India was being talked whole hill became theire, and a high encir-I suppose there was none when the Prince partaken of it the host sounded a whistle, slimbed up into the loft, but found nothing, may be at the moment, he invariably about, so good situations were wanted for cling well, with iron gates, barred access to visited the place, or he would not have re

terminates the day when the clock strikes coal depêts; and there was some hope even any but those of their own nation. Up to mained a whole hour as he did,

and as if by magic the soup plates disap Here in food and fresh weat,' said the eleven, Then be re ires to his bed-room, of finding coal in the inland itself. Captain the Prince of Wales visit I do not only y The origin of the whole practice is nu aach containing a roast goose, appeared. peared and three magniscent silver platters, stranger, laying bis hand on the head of It is almost tresting of things past, were it Hayes, therefore, of the Palimerus was that no stranger had visited this spot; I say doubt the veneration with which the Parsee Little cries of terror were heard from the Yank, the child with the curly treases not for bis senatorial candidature of next commissioned by the Bombay Government more, that no one ever expected to see it. regard the elements. Fire is too pure to be ladies. Mr Atkinson took no notice of his Piercing was the dry uttered by Luibitaka, week, to write of Victor Buge. His glory to look out for likely harbours, and The Farsees are not a preselytizing scot, they polluted by committing corpses to the flames guests surprise, but, remariding that it was 15 she fell senseless to the ground beside has faded, and be is no longer the man who Lieutenant Wellstead was to explore in would not accept proselytes though they Water is almost equally venereted, and sq her child, her only child, Yauka, with the wrote the Orientales and the second act of land. They found about 160 houses in it came to them voluntarily. There is a veil of too, is mother earth, Hence this strange the whole ceiling disappeared the host's a very warm evening, whistled again, and burly treases. Never shall it be said that

two-thirds of thein in ruins, just as they mystery and mysticism over much that the system has been invented, by which it is sup black coat vanished at the same moment, Bervisa failed in hospitality towards a

had been left at the beginning of the con- Pareces do, and they do not love to talk with posed pane of the impurities of the corpse leaving him clothed in a white suit. The ghest,' said the poor man, Lazarus, sa he sized the boy and slaughtered him with MANAGEMENT OF THE STOMACH.

tury by the Wubhabees. They were built strangers boat their soored things. Next can infest the elemente, at all events directs guests, alarmed, were about to rise from his long knife, as though he had been a A PHYSIOLOGICAL Work by Dr. Drewery, over, and of some strength for in Socotra the strangest thing which has happened is done to dispel the gloomy thoughts which their chairs and the table suddenly raised of limestone and coral, thickly cemented all to the strangeness of the Prince's visit itself ly. And everything that can be thought of their chairs, when they found themselves, lamb. Oh, who dan tell the tale of the entitled "Common-senec Management of strangers supper for he feasted on the the Stomach, is thus, reviewed by the the fans are both pleatiful and violent. during that visit is the easy way in which some parts of the process naturelly engender ve feet above the floor. They, however, flesh of the boy as though it had been that Morning Advertiser ¡→

Socotra le about a thousand square miles the curtain which has so long been held up The chapels are situated in a beautiful gers were soon lowered again to the floor, and in extent, and nearly four times as long by the Parsees round their tombs has been den, where those who attend the funeral all took refuge in husty flight from the of the yeating of the flock, Weary with Another book about the stomach. A as it is broad, its length lying, east and dropped by them. The Prince wished to see it and enjoy the beauty of flowers and tow demonlas abode. A judicial investigation his grief, the poot men Lazarus fell asleep volume might be compiled on the literature west. To the south, the coast in almost the Towers of Silence. Sir Bartle Frere ering shrubs. Those who deposit the corpses was instituted, and it was found that Mr bit at midnight the voice of the stranger of this interesting urgad Medical writers unbroken, all along the north there wrote to the governing body of the Parsees in the towers go through a purification, and Atkinson had been for ten years the chief wakened him, saying Rise up then poor are never weary of describing it; and many ate small bays, in one, of which is that the Prince wished it, and lol it was done the garments they wear when in the Towar machinist at Covent Garden Theatre in thun, Lazarus! I am the Lord thy God. non-me-tidal writers are only too reddy to Tatearida. The island consists of a pile of It may be quite true that the fire worshippers at Silence are put away in another tower London, whore he had amassed a nice little Survida hospitality has remained without a give de its "memoirs and to record the Stain. The sun have I brought to life again 1 saperi-nds of the minister of the in mountains, up to 4,600 feet high, surround. had found that detractors had made use of erected for the sole purpose of receiving fortune. The dinner was oiltble freak to abundance have I brought to thy house, terior." The old fable in which the various ad (except in two places, where they rise the mystery in which they shrouded their them, and there they smoulder away, Lotty life, treasure and blessing have I given orgails of the body becarie rebellious, and p straight from the sea) by a belt of plain funeral rites to invent many calumnies saw this tower so filled that the wind was indulge his fondness for his old pursuit.

land flots two to four rulles broad. In against them, but still I do not think that a stirring the topmost elothes on the very Branular, Sept. 1869.--Gentlemen, 1 to the rich man Larus, to the ten the stomath proved that it was the ruler of many places this belt is watsked by moun- desire to set themselves right with the world brim of the building. For the rest of the der Luibitska, to the bearful Yauka Yan them all, has been perhaps the cause of the

a with the curling treeses.' And with these extra am fint of attention it has received in streams, but elsewhere the plains are would alone have induced them to raise the Parsee believe in the resurrection, but their Words the stranger vanished; and lote from the writers to whom we have alluded. hard add barren. In the highlands there veil. It would never have been put aside creed is that the body raised will be a spiri- Beautiful Yanka-Yanko, with the curly Undeterred by the laige amount of

is an endless variety of edit and climate but for the Prince's wish to have it removed; tual and a glorified body-Madras Corres tietsen, lay aleaping beside his sleeping stomach literature which already exists; and the luland valleys, as a rule, are well and so, if his visit to India should have no pondence London Standardi

Watered. Luxurlant vegetation is found other result, it will have in this brought mother, in a deep and happy sleep, in a Dr. Drewery has casayed to give his own on some of the hill-dides, and wete the in. about one of the most curious changes that rich bed with silken curtains; and the common sense views about the management habitants leak ignorant and idle, they might India has witnessed. The thing cars about moonlight streamed in at the large tin of the ruling member of the human body grow far larger quantities of indigo and suddenly that the Secretary of the Parsees dows, of the palees of the rich fan Be telis a tale such as Shakespeare told; cotton that they do. As regards tlimate, found himself, as he told me, standing under Lavarus, filled with treasure, aid over the that.

Bobotra may compare very favorably with the wall of the principal Tower of Silence; gardens, the pastures, the groves, and dora.

"Fat panchor five las pats; and dainty bits helds and vineyards, the gooks, the herds,

the neighbouring mainland; for, consider close to the vast stone slab on which the and the servants of the rich man Lazarus, Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits."

ing all things, it is remarkably cool and corpses are deposited, explaining from a the friend of the stranger, Lazarus, whole points out that perspas who overload temperate. During the north-east thonsoon, model the interior councy of the structure maintained Serving bospitality without their stomache with improper food, neglect from the middle of January to the middle to his Royal Highness and a group of hie

MILE PILLS,”—AP/11/15- ing entirely all attempt at adjustment of of March, the mean daily temperature in suits before he had time to prepare his drose

Almost every one who has done out to of Leutenant Wallstead's visit, they believed wall thore is but one aperture, about five placed his mouth close to the pantaloon's

hearth the faggot already flames and sparkles.

man, Ushurua, opened the cupboard a

not even a piece of bread, not even a fruit

Bernant.

calls it.

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the island, and betrayed no disfike to a change of rule, if rule it can be called where there is practically no government at all. still, there was, and we may hope still is, singular absence of heinous crime, and the ssidy of person, and property had even attracted numbers from the neighbouring continents. Should the English Govern, ment eventually follow up the prouutionary measure it has just taken, by the actual recupation of Socotra, there seems every reason to believe that the life of an English man might be made tolerably pleasant in the island, and perhaps even English capital and energy find fairly favorable field for their judicious employment,

to

Miscellaneous.

FAUT FOB THE RING,Check this in this world, copecially if the cheek is diinpled and roay.

How a woman can keep on talking while she twists up her back hair, and has her mouth, full of hairpins, is a mystery not yet explained.

LA WOMAN 16 very like a kettle, if you some

I

undress Booms not to be

foul it a duty owe to you to express my gratitude for the great benefit, I have de

tired by taking Norton's Camomile Pills

applied to your agent Mr Bell, Berkeley, for the above-named Pills, for wind in the stomach, from which I suffored excrucia ting pain for a length of time, having tried nearly every remedy prescribed, but with out deriving any benefit at all. After taking two bottles of your valuable pills, was quite restored to my usual state of health. Please give this publicity for the benefit of those who may thus be afflicted, I am. Bir yours truly, Hasy ALLAIRA To the Proprietors of Noston's VABO:

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No. 3976.MARCH 20, 1876.]

-POSTAL RATES. [Subjoined we give the postal rates now in force for transmission of corre apondenco to all parts of the world, Detailed rules affecting the transmis- sion of packets, parcels, &c., will be found annexed, togother with a number of miscellaneous and useful notices.]

Hongkong Rates of Postage. (Revised January 1st, 1876.)

In the following Statements and Tables for the Rates are given in cents, and aro, Letters, per half ounce, for Books and Patterns, por four ounces, unless otherwise statad.

Newspapers over four ounces in weight

* are charged as double, treble, &c., as the case may be, but such papers or packet of papers may be sent at Book Bate: Two Newspapers must not be folded together as one, nor must anything whatever be inserted except bona lido Supplements. Printed matter way, however; be suclosed, in the whole be paid at Book Rate. Prices Cur- runt may be paid either as Newspaper or Books.

(Br.) moans By British Packet; (Fr.) by French Facket; (U. 8.) by United States

Packet. D. P. means Double Postage; C. P., cannot be paid; C. 8., catinos be seat;, at Letter Rate:

By British Packet,

Letters.

Registration.

Newspapers.

Backe,

Patterns.

France, (102) 18 D.P. C.P. C.P. Algeria, Italy,

14 12 2

Gibraltar,.....24 None Brindisi (oz.) 18 None C.s. c.s.

Southampton,. None 88(262.) Portugal,

Ja

8

4

0.8. 6 6(2 oz)

Via Gibraltar, ......24 None

Brindisi (oz.) 18. D.P. C.8. Southampton,.34 10 Turkey,-

British Office........ 20 Austrian Office,....22 12 4 10 Greece ( oz.)........ None C.P. O.P. Gibraltar,..

8 4 8 Malta,

8 2

THE CHINA MAIL.

To provide the greatest possible facilities for posting Correspondence for Europe, do, up to the latest moment before the departure of the French Packets, arrange ments have been made for receiving at the Post Office late letters for Singapore and the United Kingdom only from 11.10 A.M. to 11.30 AM. Each letter must bear a late fee of 18 conta extra postage.

drawings, prints, or maps, and any quantity of paper, or any other substance in ordinary use for writing or printing upon; and the books or other publications, prints, maps, do., may be either printed, written, en graved, lithographed, or plain, or any mixture of these. Further, all legitimate binding, mounting, or covering of a book, do, or of a portion thereof, is allowed, whether such binding, do be loose or attached; as also rollers in the case of prints or mape, markers (whether of paper or otherwise) in the case of books, pens or pencils in the case of pocket-books, dro., and, in short, whatever is necessary for the safe transmission of such articles, or usually appertains thereto; but the binding, rollers, &c, must not be sent as a separate packet, A similar supplementary Mail will be Circulars, ie, lettera which are intend-made up for Shanghai by the English and ed for transmission in identical teams to French Contract Steamers, the late letters being received from 10 minutes after, up greater part of which is printed, engraved, The late fee will also be 18 cents. or lithographed,may also be sent by book post.

The above arrangement is intended to meat occasional emergencies, and not for the regular posting of extensive correspon dence. Should it be found, therefore, that large and unmanageable numbers of letters aro habitually thrown upon the Department at the last moment, a heavier late fee will be imposed."

addressing Letters do, for well-known to the Money will be forfeited, unless, Firms And Individuals to London only; undar pocullar ofroumstances, the Post but this practice not aufrequently occasions Office of the Country in which the Order delay in such Letters &c., reaching their was drawn thlak proper to allow it rightful owners. In all casos, however 16.After once paying a Money Order well the Firm or Individual for whom a by whorosoever presented, the paring Ofice letter is intended may be known, it is most will not be liable to any further claim. If essential to ensure its correct and prompt a wrong payment, however, be made Qu delivery, that the Street in which they r to negligence on the part of any Offloor of ride and the number of the house, should the Post Office, the Postmaster General of form a part of the address.

the Country of Colony in which the negl genoe ooours will, if he see fit, require the Officer in fault to make good the loss.

17. No Money Order will be paid unless the advice has been previously receiver.

18.-Additional Rulon for greater seon-

Many boxes of letters are received at the Post Office not sealed, that is to say, the box is fastened with sealing wax, but there is no impression of a seat.

with them.

2 12(2 88.) several persons, and the whole or to to half an hour after the time of alosing precaution leaves a doubt as to whether the either in the United Kingdom or at Hong-

8

The attention of boxholders is called rity agains fraud, and for the better work- will be made to the necessity of carefully sealing ing of the system generally

as occasion may require.

19.-Should it appear that Money Order such boxes with some recognisable seal, and of sending a Chit-book or receipt

The omission of the latter are used by mercantile mon, or others, contents of the box ever reached the Post kong, Shanghai or Yokohama, for the The Postmaster at San Francisco has Office; the omission of the former, as to transmission of large sums of money, the Bas a book-packet may not contain any given notice that letters despatched from whether park of them might not have been British or Colonial Post Ofice, the case propriety of the lotter, or communication of the nature of a this Colony (whether through the Post abstracted for the sake of the Postage may be, will consider the

oressing the Commission, and will özérde Patterns cannot be sent to Spain, Por-letter (whether separate or otherwise), Oflice, or as consignees' letters) by the Uni-Stampe tugal or Greece,

unless it be a circular-letter or be wholly ted States Mail Packeta, will not be for

It is not generally possible to count the the power of wholly suspending for a time printed; nor any enclosure sealed or in any warded to any places not within the United letters sent in sealed boxes (except where the issue of Money Orders. way closed against inspection nor any States unless the propor Postage from there are only three or four) and therefore other enclosure not allowed by Rule 3. this rule be infringed, the entire packet American Postage Stamps, but will be 47 for London, 15 for Calcutta, 3 for

America to such places be prepaid in the lost Office receipt to such an entry as, is charged as a letter.

returned to this Office,

Ponang, & for Singapore," must be taken to mean no more than what is stated, viz., that one box was duly received.

By French Packet.

(Letters oz.).

France & Algoria,... 13 D.P. O.P. Italy,.....

.18 D.F. CP. Spain,... Portugal,.. Turkey, Greece,.. Gibraltar,.

C.P. C.P.

16 None C.S. C.8. 18 D.P. C.P. C.P. [12] D.P. | 2 | C.P. 12 None C.P. C.P. 18 None 0.9.0.8. Paiteros cannot be sent to Italy, Turkey, or Greece.

W: Africa, Islands of the Atlantic,(except St. Helena and Ascension), North, Central, and South America. Falkland Islands, Lagos, Gold Coust, TOWN POSTAGE (Victoria) Letter, News. Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Cape Vord

Islande, Azores, Bermudas. paper, Book, or Pattern, 2 cents.

BAYES DY PLIVATE STEAMER-To the United Kingdom, seo Table given below. To all other place the itate is, Letters, 8 cents; Newspapers and Prices Current, 2 cents; Books and Patterns, 6 oouts, which must be prepaid, except when the address

-in to, indian

Correspondence to India by Private Ship cannot be prepaid, by indian Mail prepay ment is optional

~~~Asia, U. 9. Packet, Australia, de,

E. Africa, St. Helena, Ascension, Malta.

LETTER Ports of Ubina and Japan, Masao, United States (U. 6.), Bangkok, Manila, Singapore, Penang, India, Ceylon,

Aden, Malta, 8 cents

Except India, Ceylon, and Aden, by French Packet, 12 cumus.

Batavia, 12; Saigon and Pondicherry, (Fr.) 12; Now Caledonia, (F'r.) 16, ‡ oz.

Zanzibar, Natal, Cape, St. Helena, As- Csusion, 20; lauritius, 22,

Alexandria and Suez, (Br.) 12, (Fr.) 12,

102.

1.24,

Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Fiji,

REGISTRATION, 8 cento, except Straits, Batavia, India, Aden, Suuz (Br.), Zanzibar, &a, Australia, act, l; saigon, Pondi cherry, Alexandria (Fr.) and outż (Fr.), double postage. There is no Registration to Bangkok, New Caledonia, or Zauzibar.

NEWSPAPERS (To all the above places) 2

cents.

BOOKS AND PATTERNS, 6 cents, except Malta, W. Africa, St. Helena, Ascension, 8. Books to New Caledonia, Letter Rate; Fatterns cannot be sent by French Packet to Pondicherry, New Caledonia, Alexandria, "or Suez, and cannot be paid to Saigon.

Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Fiji, 1 oz., 2 cents; 2 oz., 4 cents; very 4 oz 8 ounts.

The United Kingdom.

Letters,

Papers

Books & Patterns,

Every 4 02.

14

Superscription. тій

0.12 oz.

Brindisi (Br.)

3 6 4 8.

Marseilles (Fr.)...30 6 4

8

-:12

South'mpton (Br.)24 4

S. Francine (U.S.) 24. 42

4

મ

By Priv. Steamer (12) 2||

via Brindisi

24 0 4 6

Registration Fés, 8 conts.

***

12

PARCEL Pour.-There is a comtuon be- lief in the existence of a Parol Fost by which such articles as Fans, Curios, Silk Dresses, Scarves, Jewellery, Artificial Teeth, do, can be forwarded at low rates, It cannot be too distinctly stated that such things can only be sent as Letters, and the very cheapest rate in 12 cents per half ounce by Private Steamer.

All such packages should be Registered (8 cente).

If the Parcel be heavy it can be sent through one of the Parcel Expresses con- ducted by Mersts Lane, Crawford, or fir -W. H. Notley, which, for anything over 4 or bounces, will be found cheaper than the Post.

Letters, Rogistration, Newspapers

Books and Patterns,

Via Brindisi Via Sou or. Marseilles, champion.

40 34

16

18

12

8 18

A book-packet may be posted either without a cover (in which caso it must not bo fastened, whether by means of gum, wafer, onling was, postage stamp, or otherwise), or in a cover entirely open at

both ends, so as to admit of the contents being easily withdrawn for examination; otherwise it is treated as a letter. For the greater security of the contents, however, it may be tied at the ends with string;- Postmasters being authorised to out the string in such cases, although if they do so they must again tie up the packet,

No book-packet may be above 5 lbs. in weight, nor above 24 inches in length, 12 inches in width, or 13 inches in depth, unless it be sent to or from one of the Government offices.

When, owing to a great and unusual influx of letters, books, &c., the transmis. sion or delivery of the letters would be United States (via Karope), Canary and delayed if the whole mail were dealt with Madeira Islands, Canada, Vancouver's Ja- without distinction, book-packets may be laud, Prince Edward's Island, New Brun-kept back till the next despatch or delivery. swick, Newfoundland, and Nova Scotia

Letters, Registration, Newspapers,

94 28

10

10.

R 18

6

Such latters should either be prepaid in both Hongkong and American Stamps as abovu, or posted to an Agent in the United States,

This notice chiefly applies to the following places, the American rates of Postage to which are as follows:-

Honolulu Lettors, 6 Cents per

oz ;

Newspapers, 2 Conta ; Books, 4 Cents per 4 oz.

Brazil: Letters, 15 Cents per oz. Peru, Chili &c.: Letters, 22 Cents per

oz.; Newspapers, 4 Cents; Books, 10 Cents per 4. oz.

*

Miscellaneous Notices.

The Post Office is not, by law, responsible for any loss or inconvenience which may arise from the non-delivery, mis-sending, or mis-delivery of any letter, book, or other postal packet (even if the packet be res gistered); nor is the Post Office responsible during its transmission. J

any injury which a packet may sustain

To guard against 'huch injury all postal

Stamps, for Postal purposes, of the values of $2, $8, and $10, can be obtained at the Post Offica

Money Order Regulations. 1.Money Orders will be issued at this Ottice and at the Agencies thereof at Shanghai and Yokohama on all the Money Order Offices in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for amounts not exceeding £10, at the rate of Exchange Current for Each Mail, and charged with Commission according to the following Scalo, viz

་་

Cents.

POST OFFICE NOTICE. Unclaimed Correspondence;

March 24th, 1876.

Lets. Papa.

Medon, Moner.

4 Morgard, Mr'

Morrison, "Mr

1

Mhn Hing

1

Man Kés

1

All Coo Andrews, C. A, 5 Andrews, C. S. 1 Balzer, T. Barr, U. Booke, F. G. Burlingame,

Dr. E'S. Chiong Biu Fat 1 Chok Shun 1 Conceição, Maria 1 Cresswell, Geo. 1 Crocker, Thos.. 8. Davis, W. B. Dawes, George De Silva, Mr De Silva, S. Dupont, Mons.C, 1 Favre, Clement 1

Lete: Fage,

Myer, Mme. R. 1 Ngok Nat Nicoolopòloo, Mr 1 Nouvelaying y

Dominique Packer, Mr Pearson, Mr Petterson,

Sjomanen Pinto, Andre C Postlethwaite

4 1

1

F. G.

Roed, M.

Bidshard, G.

For sums not exceeding £2,..........................18 Above £2 and not exceeding £ 5,...36 £7.54 **$7

£10,....72 Forin, James 1 regd (Pilot)x n}:

1-35 Rodriguez, Joans I 2.-No Money Order to include a trac Fong Mow

Gonzalez, Filipe 1 Hyall, Mr. tional part of a Penny.

Samuels, Dr. Orders drawn in the United King-Hagen, Capt. T. 1 Gordeen, T. L 1

of

11

Don

Santon, Marcelinol

Searle, Thos,

1 regd.

1

Smith, Joseph H. 1

Johnson, Mrs. A. 1 Johnstone,

Somerset

Scott, flasgo

The limit of size for a book packet addressed to any place abroad is 24 inches packets which are likely to suffer from dom upon Hongkong, Shanghai, and Yoko Harris, Jolin S. 1 in length and 18 inches in width or depth,

hamu, will be paid at the rate of Exchange Ho Cheat Chia 1 Exceptions, No packet for Algeria,

ruing on the day of arrival of the advices Holber, Han 12

Azores, Cape de Verd Talarida, Franco,

Buch orders Madeira, or Portugal, or for Egypt, Syria, or Turkey,, when sent by French Packet, must be above 18 inches in length, width, or depth.

Books and Patterns, W. Indios, Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Costa Rica, Guadaloupe, Guatemala, Grey Town, Haytt, Honduras, La Guagra, Mexico, Monte Video, New Granada, Panama, Paraguay, Porto Rica, Surinam, Uruguay, and Venezuelo,

Letters, Newspapers,

52

8

48 6

Books and Patterns,

18

12

Registration, None

except to Brasil und

British West Indies,

16

16

Bolivia, Chili, Ecuador, and Peru.

Letters,

Buk

68

Newspapers,

8

6

14.

Books and Patterns, Registration,

20

None.

Any publicstion fulfilllug the conditions hereafter named can pass as a newspaper.

The conditions are as follows:

1st. The publication must consist wholly or in great part of political or other news, or of articles relating thereto, or to other current topics, with or without advertise-

ments

2nd. It must be published in nambers at intervals of not more than 31 deya, and must be printed on a sheet or sheets an

stitched:

3rd. The full title and date of publication must be printed at the top of the first page, and the whole or part of the title and the date of publication at the top of every subsequent page; and this regulation applies

to Tables of Contents and indices.

4th. A supplement must consist wholly or in great part of matter like that of a newspaper, or of advertisements, printed on a shept or sheets, or a piece or pieces of paper, unstitched; or wholly or in part of engravings, prints, or lithographs illustra- tive of articles in the newspaper. The supplement must in every case be published with the newspaper, and must have the title and date of publication of the newspaper printed at the top of every page; or, if it consists of engravings, prints, or lithographs, at the top of every sheet or side.

A packet containing two or more news papers is not chargeable with a higher rate of postage than would be chargeable on book packet of the same weight.

a

A newspaper posted unpaid, or a packet of newspapers posted either unpaid or insufficiently paid, is treated as an unpaid or insuficiently paid book packet of the same weight,

The postage must be prepaid either by an adhesiva stamp, or by the use of a stamped

wrapper.

AS ERGARDE PATTERNS,

They must not be of intrinsic value. This rule axeludes all articles of a saleable nature, and indeed whatever may have a value of its own, spart from its mere use as a pattern; and the quantity of any material sont ostensibly as a pattern must not be so great that it can fairly be con- sidered as having on this ground an intrla- sio value.

Pattern and Sample Post to colonies and foreign countries is restricted to bonú fide trade patterne or samples of merchandise. Goods sent for sale, or in execution of au order (however small the quantity may be), or any articles sent by one private indivi- dual to another, which are not actual patterns or samples, pre not admissible.

Patterns or samples, when practicable, must be sent in covers open at the ends, and in such a manner as to be easy of examination. But samples of reeds, druga, and such like articles, which cannot be sout in covers of this kind, but such articles only,may be posted enclosed in boxes, or bags of linen, of other material, fastened

such a manner that they may be readily uponed; or, in the case of soads, &c., for the United States of America, Holland, and its possessions, Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Portugal and its possessions, and Switzerland, in bags entirely closed, pro- vided such closed baga are transparent, so as to enable the Uficers of the Post Office readily to satisfy themselves as to the nature of the contents.

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amping or from great pressure should be placed in strong covers and even with this precaution no fragile article should be sout that every packet has to be handled several times; that it is exposed i bozisiderable pressure and friction in the mall bag; and that, whenever the bag has in the course of its transmission to be transferred by means of the railway apparatus, the risk of injury is much increated,

through the Post. It should be remembered

No information can be given respecting letters which pass through a Post Office except to the persons to whom they are addressed; and in no other way is official information of a private character allowed to be made public. A Postmaster may, however, give an address if he has no reason to believe that the person whose address it is would disapprove of his doing so.

Postmasters se not allowed to return any letter or other packet to the writer or aonder, or to any one else, or to delay forwarding it to ita destination according to the address, even though a request to such effect be written thereon,

Postmasters are not bound to give change, nor are they authorised to demand change; and when money is paid at a Post Office, whether as change or otherwise, no question as to its right amount, goodness, or weight been removed can be entertained after it has beer from the counter.

Postmasters are zot bound to weigh any letters or other packets for the public, but they may do so if their duty be not thereby impeded.

4.-Alphabetical Lists of over 8,700

Money Order Offices in the United King dom, showing the Counties la which they are situated, are hung up for publio refer and Yokohama. ence at this Office, and also at Shanghai

6-Applicants for Money Orders must the initial of one Christian name, both of furnish, in full, the surname, ad, at least, the Kemitter and the Fayee; if the Remit ter or Payee bé & Peer or a Bishop, his or- dinary title will be sufficient, if a firm, the ushal designation of such firm, such as Baring Brothers will suffice but the mere term Messrs., such as Messrs. Ri

1

Kafece, N. Lanthy, Mr Long We Chood Mackenzie, G. 1 Malherbe, Marks, D.

Mous, de Marks, F. W. Martin, Charles 1

1 7

Mary Ann

Stephens, T. Stirling, Patrick Tiang Pear: 20

Vanrigy Ly

Walleco, George Warren, H..

Walsh, D. E.,

Willes, T. R. Wols, Lais

Woodworth, A.B.2 Wright, Mra W.T.1

For Merchant Ships.

Abbotsford, ss. 1

Airedb

Alexauder

Andrews

Ohristine Columbi

...

Lets. Papa.

Kirkland

1

Laja Leonura

6

i

1

1 Otter

Licks Till

Luera

6.1. Ly-se-moon

1

1

vngton, or the name of a Company trad ing under a title which does not consist of the names of the persons composing it, anoh

The Remitter on stating that the Or Alexandra as Carron Co. is admissible. der is to be paid only through a Bunk, to Annie Fish have the option of giving or withdrawing Argonaut the name of the Payee; in such case, the Blair Athol Order will be crossed in the same way that British Crow Cheques are commonly crossed when they Calabar, 8.8.

Capelara Artica are intended to be paid through a Bank.

7.-When an Order is presented through Caroline & Bank, a receipt by any person will be auf. Channel Queen ficient, provided the Order be crossed with Charlotte the name of the receiving Bank, and be Chien Shang, 8.5.2 presented by some Person known to be in

8.The signature of the Payee of a Mo- Comet the employ of such Bank. ney Order to be affixed to the Order in the Comith place provided for the purpose, If the Corea Payee be unable to write he must sign the Cashan

presence Dartmouth receipt by making his mark in the of a Witnem, who must sign his name, with Dora

Duedisot Ellen Beatrice his address in the presence of the Officer

Ellen Brewea who pays the Order.

9.Should the Payce of a Money Order E. M. Young desire to receive payment in the Country in E. P. Bouverio B

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Trubner's Oriental Record contains the fol- lowing notice of the China Review

This

Irons

4oHausen

McPherson Bohkar bkCurtis 3 Lewis 17 d0wons

5. From P. and O. Co.'s Office to Peddar's Wharf. 6. From Peddar's Wharf to the Naval Yard.

7. From Naval Yard to the Piér.

HONGKONG MARKET PRICKS. Corrected to Saturday, Mar. 25, 1876, At 1100 Cash per Dollar Mexican,

PAICH Highest, Lowes? Cath. Cash

Butcher Meat:“

Bacon, English,.

Foochow, Beef, sirloin and prime cut, cy. 150 120 Lettuce, English.

120 100 catty Beof Corned,

180 120 Mint,.

(No. 3976.--Manch 25, 1876.

Curry Stuff, English,, catty..

40

30

Garlic,

30

Ginger,

60

Green Peas, young

60

P

.. lb.

"I

13

old.. 400 300

Englisk 160 150 Groen Winter Course

DI

70

60

*80

""

20

15

1

head

10

Chinese'.

Section.

Roaat,

Soup

#1

70 60 Mushroom, dried,

ontty bunch catty

20

12

10

750 650

3. From Novelty Iron Works to the Harbour Master's Office.

Steak,

20

180 120 Onions, Bombay

8. From Pior to East Point,

Bullocks' Brains,

• per net

60 40

Green

1

Vessel's Name.

Captain.

Flag and Rig,

Tons.

Date of | Arrival. |

·Consignees or Agents.

Destination.

Remarks.

"

Tongue, fresh, each

corned

"

Head,

250 200 Parsley, Chluane, 400 350

English, 1000 700 Potatoes, Macao,

17

catty bunch

ualty

Stoamers

Altona

3k Muller 3 Molsen

Ger. Dan.

Asia

4 k Pateau

Metoslfe

3 Buchanan

2 b Watt

ō Wood

5 Jensen

5 k Couche

4k Corrigall

4 h Garcean

5k Ganvain

& bAshton

2 dCowie

Mar. 491 Mar. 1840 Mar.

2 h Walker

14 k

*2 Hansen

5 cHopkins

933 Mar,

str. 1179 Mar, 23 Wa, Pustan & Co. str. 880 Mar. 23 Wm. Pantau & Co.

883 Mar. 16 Siemason & Co. roh. str. Brit str. 1716 Mar. 20P. M. S. S. Co. Brit, atr. 009 Mar. Brit. str. 764 Mar. Brit Atr. 1280 Mar. Dan

str. 778 Mar. Brit. str. 1209 Mar. Brit.

str. 1216 Mar. Brit. atr. 799 Mar. F'ch. str. Brit str. Brit.

str. Brit. str. Amer, str. str Brit Brit. str.

Saigon Saigon

Heart,

100 110

"

$1

Sweet,

Feet,

60

"

50 Pumpkins,..

BU 70

20

15

80.20

10

80 20

· 14 12

12 10

"

24 Massageries Maritimes 25 Douglas Lapraik & Co. 22 Adamson, Bell & Co 606 Feb. 24 Kwok Acheong 284 June 18ing. Heard & Co. 359 Mar. 22flop Hing

1Jardline, Matheson & Co. 19 Landstain & Co. 20 Adamson, Bell & Co. 25 Jardine, Matheson & Co. 14 Jardine, Matheson & Co. 26 Jardino, Matheson & Co. 22 Remedios & Co.

Y'hama & S. F'cisco Ab'deen Dook Sapore and Ponang Cooktown & Sydney about 30th

S'apore and Penang 28th, 3 p.m.

Mauila Shangbal East Coast

Tripe (undressed), catty 40

Calves' Head and Fest, set Hams, American,

Kidneys,

60

50 Radishes, English

doz.

·40

Tail,

120 110 Scallions,

catty

20

15

.

Ilver,

90 catty

70 Shalots,

catty

40

30 Squash, Bottle

40

600 450 Taro,

15 12

Monday 27th With Mails

Ib.

$50

Tomatoes,

200

Chinese,

17.

SP

200 160 Turnips, English,

English.

400 360

Repairing Laid up

Mutton Chop,

180 160

25

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23 Yuen Tat Hong

Swatow Bangkok

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freab, China Salt, 180 160 Water Idly Roots, 140 130 Water Cress,

each catty

10

12

80 20

--00- 50

"

$0

4 Clark

Brit. Btr.

921 Mar.

23 Hop King

Liver,

13

110 100 Yama,

4 Edmond

5 Reynier

Brit. Fch.

str. 1683 Mar,

13P. & 0. 3. N..Co.

str. 1726 Mar.

20 Mussagories Maritimos

Yokohama Yokohama

3.

Yottung

5bPunebard 2ödı

Brit, str. Brit, str.

639 Mar.

22 Douglas Lapraik & Co.

Coast Ports

324 June

9 Kwok Acheong

With Mails Fo-morrow

26th, daylight Repairing

Pigs' Chitlings,

catty

60

50

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Foot,

O'F

120 110 Aleurites,

Fry,

+

11

110 100 | Apples, Dried

catty catty

»

30 20

60 · 50

350 200

Head,

110 100

97

California,

500

Noyes

Amer. bk.

842 Mar.

10 Rozario & Co.

4 Moors

Brit.

kRije

Ger.

ob. bg.

727 Mar,

Rozario & Co.

274 Mar,

2 h Lange

Siam, bk.

340 Mar

3 Eduard Schellhaes & Co. 7Chinese

Honolulu

Vancouver's Island

Tiontain

Hearty

‣ Badh

Kidneys,

•

33

13

Liver,

•

Hervé

Foh bb.

256 Feb.

21 Carlowitz & Co.

4

Smith

[Amer, sh,

963 Nov.

8 h Federico

Hovor

Fauquet

o Forbes

Rousal

8 Strachan

7 Hildebrandt

Noyes Bambach

13 Cutler

4 Ruwald

4 Linklator

4 Abimann

3 Palmer

7 Barclay

9 White

4 c Bristow

7 Heley

3 Moyer

Amer, suh. Brit.

bk. 364 Feb. bk. Foh.

300 Mar. Amer, bk, 520 Mar. b. 1188 Mar, Fch. Brit. bk. 748 Mar. Brit. Bab. 148 Dec. Amer. bk. 670 Dec. Ger, sh, 848 Feb, Ger, sch. 276 Mar, Brit,

sh. 638 Fob. 434 Mar, Ger. bk, Amor, bk. 698 Mar. Amur. Bu, 1327 Feb. Brit. sh, 864 Mar. 862 Mar. Amor. ah. Brit, Brit bk. Ger. bk. Amer. sh. Brit. Amer. sh. Brit, BIL 1062 Feb. 152 Mar. Mericaechevarria Span aoh. 4 Camus Span. bg. 261 Mar. Amer, sch. 593 Mar. Ger. bk, 489 Mar.

176 Jan.

8 Order

11Jardine, Matheson & Co.

8 Russell & Co. 4Landstein & Co.

16 Rozarlo & Co.

Laudstein & Co. Rozaria & Co.

18 Frazar & Co. 17 Rozario & Co. 26 Melchora & Co.

Vancouver's Island

Saigon Portland

Tientsin

New York

Honolulu

Repairing 4th April

FJ

Corned,

#3

Leg,

Takao

Portland (Oregon)

Bangkok.

Pork, Chop,

ib. catty

70 50 Bananas, fragrant Punti, catty 70. 60

Common 120 110 Chesnuts,

Ad

80 26

140 130 Cocosuuts

180 120 Carrauts,

Fat or Lard, Sheeps Head, and Fest, ret

Heart,

"

Kidneys,

16 Carlowitz & Co.

Sucking Pigs, Veal,

4 Ebell & Co.

Macao

Cos'tan Dook

.catly Poultry.

1400 1300 | Oranges, Sweet SupwoSY

180 120

11

+

140.180 120 110 Datos,

1)

each bottle lb. bottle

830 820 Figo, Dried,

500 400

each

60

50 Guavaa,

70

60 Ground Nutng

catby calty

10

40

200 170

100

Co 50

400 360

200 160

500 400

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10

Mandarin

50

"

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13

20 Wieler & Co, 20 Order

21 Vogel, Hagedorn & Co. 17 Arnhold, Karberg & Co.

San Francisco

Сарови, Deer, amall.

eatty

each $3,00

200 180 12.

Nutmog,

50

#

-

Licheca, Dried,

+91

Ducks,

catty

180 120 Lemons,

··

180

18 Russell & Co.

bk. 464 Mar,

10 Captain

854 Mar.

11 Wieler & Co.

820 Feb.

722 Mar.

ah, 1161 Mar.

650 Des.

14 Arnhold, Karberg & Co. 17Russell & Co.

Adamson, Bell & Co..

18 Vogel, Hagedorn & Co. Vogel, Hagedorn & Co.

4 Remedios & Co. 17 Brandao & Co. 10 Captain

8Wm. Pustau & Co.

San Francisco

Hamburg

San Francisco

11.''

Dried Eggs, Hou

. each

220 200 Luong Ngan, Dried,

40 50

40

800-890

250 160

+

dos.

100

Duck

100

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12

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100

Loquats, Mangosteena, Melons, Chinese.

40

#1

Bach

40

4

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Portland (Oregon)

Fowls,

catty

180 170 Pears, Chefoo,

each 100 catty

200 350

San Francisco

Yiollo via Manila

Gleese,

22

Partridges,

esch

Pheasants, Canton, Hive pair

Pigeons,

each

120 110

·300 260 1500

150 140 Prunes, Dried,..

(each

09

Pineapples, Punti

Leatty

30

Plantains, common.

40 80

⚫ bottle

WHAMPOA

Quail,

80 70 Fumeloes, Canton

ench

Schweer Wilkinsoni Bannan Howen

Ger. bk. 282 Mar, Amen sh. 664 Mar. Ger. bk. 359 Mar. Amer, soh, 866 Mar.

22 Melchors & Co.

2Vogel, Hagedorn & Co. 15 Siemssen & Co. 24 Arnhold, Karberg & Co.

New York

Snipe,

each

Teal,

125 120 Raising, Muscatel, 200 180

300 250

100 50

bottle 1100 760,

"

Turkey, Cock,

catty

500 500 Sugar Cane,

Hen,

400 350 Tamarindo,

Lb.

stlak ontty

200 160

30

60 50

is

CANTON

Drewes Henninge

Brit Ger.

str. str.

814 Mar. 24 Siemanen & Co. 648 Mar. 23 Siemesen & Co.

Shanghai Shanghai

27th, noon

Bombay Duck's Bream, Carp,

Fish.

per hundred 200

catty

Walnuts, new

100

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60

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40

25

60

90 100

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110 100 Allspice,

Codfish, salt Conger Hels, Crabs,

200 180 Bran,

13

bottle pionl

250 200

90

+

80 Butter,

Ib,

1600-1500

700 500

90

Men-of-war in Hongkong Harbour.

· 60 50

Cuttle Fish,

Lemon

80 Candied Orange Feel, bottla

780 700 ----750-700-

110 100

Dace,

[Anchor"]

Fessel's Name.

Flag.

Class,

Tons.

Guns. H. P.

Date of

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Commander.

Dog Fish,

age.

Fels, Fresh

Fish, Largo

80 120 100 130 120

Capers, 70 Charcoal,

· 220 160

**

picul

Cheese, American,

Ib.

1100 1000

400

:

English,

12.

400

German corvette

1400.

6

0

British-

iron-clad (flag-ship)

6750

14

800

6

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Russian

corvette

2000

Mar. 14 Feb. 27 Mar. 6

Kühns Colomb

Small

120 100

31

11

Dutch,

each

1100

Boyle

Froge,

200 150 Cinnamon,

catty..

250 200

:

6 h

Chinese

gunboat

28

Mar. 21

Collins

Garoupa,

19

130 110 Citron,

7 h

British

aux, naval hospital

www.

D. M. Insp. Gen. Morgan

6 h

British

gun vessel

402

100

C. E. Buckle

6 k

British

military hospital

2591

Capt. Becker

Gudgeon, Gurnet,

120 110

31

Clovos,

90 100

15

Coconut Oll,

6 b British

gun veesel

404

Feb. 27

Francis Stirling

Herrings, email.

100 90

12

Coffee,

6 b 7 b

British British

Commodore's flag ship 3087

Commodore Parish

box

$1.00.

www

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despatch vessel

650

200

Mar. 25

B, C. D. Rydor

Live Fish,

catty

At Denton

British

stoam sloop

727

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120

Mar. 20

W. F. Castle

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180 120. -80-70

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Gram,

ploul

30 2780-2600

Mullet,

100 90

"

Oysters,

130 120

+

HONGKONG, MACAO AND CANTON RIVER

STEAMERS.

CHINESE GUN-VESSELS IN CANTON WATERS, &c.

Parrot Fish,

130 120

Isinglass, Lamp Oil, Macaroni,

catty 760

100 90

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box

1000 900

Perch,

100

90

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800 750

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In the title of a publication, the first number of which has lately reached us from Houg Bong, where it has been set on foot as in Bume respecta a continuation of Notes and Queries on China and Japan, the extinction of which useful serial a year or two ago has boen much regrotted in Europe as well as in China. Thepresent publication, judging by the number now before y, is intended to occupy a position, as regards China and the neighbouring countries, somewhat similar to that which has been filled in India by tho Calcutta Review. The great degree of at- tention that has been bestowed of late years upon the investigation of Chinese literature, antiquities, and social developments, to say nothing of linguistic studies, has led to the Formosa accumulation of important stores of inform- Haze ation, rendering some such channel of pub Ino licity as is now provided extremely desir- Marion able; and contributions of mach interest may fairly be looked for from the members of the foreign consular services, the Chinese Amoy Customs corps, and the missionary body, China among whom a high degree of Chinese scholarship is now assiduously-cultivated, and who are severally represented in the first number of the Review by papers highly creditable to their respective authors. In a paper on Dr. Leggo's She King, by the Kev. E. J. Eitel, to which the place of honour is deservedly given, an excellent summary is presented of the chronological problema and arguments involved in con- nexion with this important work, Some translations from Chinese novela and plays are marked by both accuracy and freshness. of style; and au account of the career of

the Chinese poet-statesman of the elevouth Arinilne contury, Su Tung-p'o, by Mr. E. C. Bowra, Audacious... is not only historically valuable, but is also Bayan

Beside Chien-jul' distinguished by its literary grace. notices of new books relating to China and Flamer the East, which will be a useful feature of Frolic the Review, if carried out with punctuality Mesanee and detail, wo are glad to notice that Thistle "Notos" and "Queries are destined to Victor Emanuel find a place in its pages also. It is to be Vigilant hoped that this opening for contributions on Chinese subjects way evoke a similar Egeria degree of literacy zeal to that which was displayed during the lifetime of its prodo seasor in the field, and that the China Review! may receive the support necessary to insure its continuance. The publication is intend- ed to appear every two months, and will form a substantial octavo magazine.

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